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The ALRS Affiliated FacultyThe Faculty of Arid Lands Resource Sciences, consisting of more than 45 members, provides the multidisciplinary breadth necessary for teaching and mentoring students with a wide range of interests. Archer, Steven R.Professor, School of Renewable Natural ResourcesPlant ecology and ecosystem sciences. Interdisciplinary research on dry-land plant community dynamics and succession, with an emphasis on grass-woody plant interactions in relation to soils, climate, disturbance, and land use. Baro, Mamadou A.Associate Professor, AnthropologyParticipatory Development, Household Livelihood Security, Applied Anthropology, Land Tenure, Gender and International Development with special focus on Africa and the Caribbean, and Research Methodology. Bauer, Carl J.Associate Professor, Geography & Regional DevelopmentFaculty Associate Water Resources Research CenterI work on water problems at the intersection of law, geography, and political economy. For 20 years my work has revolved around water rights in the Americas, especially in Chile and the Western United States. I have found that focusing on property rights is a good way to get a handle on issues of comparative and international water law, policy, and economics. It is also a good way to ground those issues in physical landscapes and ecosystems. Most of my experience has been in the areas of water markets; privatization and regulation of water resources; water conflicts and river basin governance; hydropower; and most recently environmental flows. Before coming to the University of Arizona, I was a research fellow for seven years at Resources for the Future, an environmental economics and policy think tank in Washington, DC. I spent three of those years in Chile and Argentina. My current research looks at various countries' efforts to combine water markets and water rights with environmental flow regimes. Such efforts are leading international experiments in trying to bring law, economics, and politics to bear on more sustainable water management. I aim to compare and contrast how people deal with these issues in the different contexts of Chile, the Western U.S., and Spain. For example, with local colleagues I am studying future hydropower development in Patagonia and throughout Chile, from the perspectives of water, electricity, and environmental law and policy. Bechtel, Robert B.Professor, Psychology; Renewable Natural ResourcesEnvironmental, ecological and social psychology. Bonine, Michael E.Department Head, Near Eastern StudiesProfessor, Near Eastern Studies; Geography & Regional DevelopmentNear-east geography, urban and settlement geography, comparative urbanism. Bradley, Michael D.Associate Department Head, Hydrology & Water ResourcesAssociate Professor, Hydrology & Water ResourcesWater resources policy & management. Colby, Bonnie G.Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics; Hydrology & Water ResourcesResource economics, impacts of climate change on resource utilization and value of natural areas, hydrology and water resources. Comrie, Andrew C.Associate Vice President for ResearchDean, Graduate CollegeDirector, Graduate Interdisciplinary ProgramsProfessor, Geography & Regional Development Research focuses on climate science applications for the environment and society. I specialize in the geographic aspects of atmospheric environmental science issues with connections to the related natural and social sciences. The range of my work includes synoptic climatology, urban and regional air pollution, climate variability and change, climate and health, multivariate statistical climate analysis, and map-pattern recognition and classification techniques. I have ongoing research interests in summer and winter climate variability in the Southwest United States, climatological and human factors influencing air pollution at local and regional scales, links between climate and disease, climate and wildfire, and new techniques for mapping climate and air quality information. I pursue basic research in climate and its applications as well as decision-support and connections to policy. The interdisciplinary nature of my research means that I work in collaboration with faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students and undergraduates from the department and from a variety of programs across campus. I run the Applied Climate for Environment and Society (ACES) lab, which is housed in the department and serves as home for my lab group. We have close connections to other units on campus including the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth. Research in the ACES lab is supported by numerous federal, state and local agencies.. Cory, Dennis C.Professor, Agricultural & Resource EconomicsNatural resource & environmental economics & policy. Cox, David E.Associate Vice President, OutreachExecutive Director, Continuing Education & Academic Outreach Director, Educational Communications & Technologies Bart Cardon Associate Dean for Academic Programs Endowed ChairVice Dean, Agriculture & Life Sciences Professor, Agriculture Education Assessment and evaluation of learning styles of adolescent and adult learners, with application to matching teaching modalities to a variety of learning styles, to enhance student competency attainment. Cuello, JoelAssociate Professor, Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering; BIO5 InstituteBioreactor design & secondary metabolite production. Davis, Owen K.Professor, Geological SciencesThe past ecology and climate of arid regions, studying the pollen and plant fossils preserved in the sediments of lakes, marshes, and caves. deSteiguer, J. EdwardProfessor, School of Renewable Natural Resources1. "Linear Optimization Methods and National Forest Planning: Past Experiences, Future Directions." 2. "Economic Impacts of Ecosystem Management on the Beaver Creek and V Bar V Watersheds." 3. "Potential Applications of Multi-Objective Decision Methods to National Forest Planning." 4. "Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Obtain Stakeholder Management Preferences: A Case Study on the Coronado National Forest." 5. " A Comparative Study of Economic Indicators of Local Community Timber Dependency: A Colorado Case Study." Elliot, John “Jack” F.Department Head, Agricultural EducationProfessor, Department of Agricultural EducationResearch in agricultural and environmental issues. Ernst, Kacey C.Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and BiostatisticsInterests are in examining the links between environment and environmental change and infectious disease transmission; particularly vector-borne diseases. Since coming to the University of Arizona she has begun developing projects related to the epidemiology of infectious diseases with partners at Arizona Department of Health Services as well as investigators in the Departments of Geography and Biology. She also plans to continue research on the ties between environment and vector-borne diseases. Her doctoral dissertation research focused on malaria in the highlands of western Kenya. She resided in Kenya for over two years designing and administering a case-control study that examined environmental, behavioral and socio-economic determinants of malaria. Her work also included assessments of the spatial and spatio-temporal patterns of malaria cases. Ffolliott, Peter F.Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources; Dendochronology; Arid LandsDevelopment & testing of ecosystems simulation models. Finan, Timothy J.Director, Bureau of Applied Research & AnthropologyProfessor, AnthropologyApplied anthropology, cultural and societal impacts of climate vulnerability, famine vulnerability and early warning. Fish, Suzanne K.Professor, Anthropology, Arizona State MuseumEthnobotany, ethnobiology, archeology, ethnopharmacy, Hohokam Agriculture. Fonseca, Jorge M.Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences, Yuma Agricultural CenterMain goal is to look at the effects of pre- and postharvest variables on quality of vegetables. My programs will develop new information and alternative technologies for vegetable production, harvest, handling and fresh-cut processing. The ultimate goal is to aid the industry find economically feasible and environmentally safe practices and technologies that add value to the final product. Gibson, Lay J.Professor, Office of Arid Lands Studies; Geography & Regional DevelopmentEconomic and urban geography, economic development. Gimblett, H. RandyProfessor, School of Renewable Natural Resources; Landscape ArchitectureSpatial dynamic ecosystem modeling; geographic information systems, artificial intelligence in natural resource planning; human cognition and environmental perception; landscape simulation; dynamic recreation behavior; modeling and simulation software; distributed multi agent reasoning systems. Graumlich, Lisa J.Director and Professor School of Renewable Natural ResourcesFor the past two decades Lisa Graumlich has worked to refine our understanding of the nature of climate variability on decade to centennial time scales and to explore how such variability affects vegetation communities. For many years, the focus of her effort was upper treeline. She also has a long-standing interest in using past records to understand the significance of twentieth century droughts. She is currently extending her work on decadal-scale severe droughts to understand how decadal-scale climate variability impacts ecosystem goods and services; to develop the tools and capacity to integrate human history with new data about the natural history of the earth at global scales and over centuries to millennia; and to use tree rings to reconstruct spatial variations in snowpack spanning several centuries or more for the Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Yellowstone/Missouri River Basin, and the Columbia and Saskatchewan River Headwaters. The resulting high-resolution maps of past snowpack will, in turn, be used to understand how ocean sea surface temperatures (e.g., El Niņo, Pacific Decadal Oscillation) influence snowpack in the West. Guertin, Phillip D.Professor, School of Renewable Natural ResourcesWatershed hydrology & management; wetland/riparian. Gunatilaka, LeslieDirector, Southwest Center for Natural Products Research & CommercializationProfessor, Office of Arid Land Studies; BIO5 InstituteApplication of natural product chemistry to solve problems of human and animal health and agriculture. Hiller, Joseph G.Associate Director, Agricultural Experiment Station, CALSAssistant Dean and Assistant Director, Native American Programs Professor, Renewable Natural Resources; Arid LandsIndian country issues, watershed management, water policy, and rangeland ecology. Hirschboeck, Katherine L.Associate Professor, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research; Atmospheric Sciences; Climatology; Geography & Regional Development; Hydrolgy & Water Resource SciencesClimatology, hydrology, climate variability & dendroclimatology. Huete, Alfredo R.Professor, Soil, Water & Environmental ScienceBiophysical remote sensing, Soil, water & environmental science. Hutchinson , Charles F.Director, Office of Arid Land StudiesProfessor, Office of Arid Land Studies; GeographyPhysical geography of arid lands, development in arid lands, famine early warning, decision support systems, remote sensing. Karpiscak, MartinAssociate Research Scientist, Office of Arid Land StudiesHuman impacts on water quality and plant communities; impacts of plants on water quality and impacts of water of various quality on the growth and health of different plant species; constructed wetlands; residential water conservation. Knight, JimProfessor, Agricultural EducationAgricultural Education Kurc, Shirley A.Assistant Professor, School of Renewable Natural ResourcesThe main objective of my research group is to characterize key aspects of vegetation that govern water, energy, and carbon cycling in water-limited ecosystems. Understanding these cycles is critical to the sustainability of our native ecosystems as we anticipate gradual and abrupt climatic and anthropogenic change. This understanding is fundamental as changes in our native ecosystems will undoubtedly have effects on the health of our watersheds and rivers. We use state of the art field, lab, and modeling techniques to achieve this objective. Additionally, this group utilizes the extensive opportunities for collaboration, extension, and outreach that differentiate both the University of Arizona and the School of Natural Resources as great research institutions. Marsh, Stuart E.Program Chair, Arid Lands Resource Sciences GIDP;
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